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TONIGHT: Eid El Fitr reading list + bracing for a global share selloff led by tech stocks
Well, friends, we made it through this wonderfully short workweek together. Kol sanna w entom tayebeen to all of you…
It’s report card season
The IMF is expected to wrap its second and final review of its year-long USD 5.2bn standby loan program by…
We’re going to pay more at the gas pump for the first time since 2019
The government raised fuel prices by 3-4% over the weekend following a rise in global oil prices during the first…
Doctors’ covid-19 death toll rises
Some 50 medical professionals have died from covid-19 in the past two weeks, the Doctors Syndicate noted in a letterto…
Slow vaccine rollout in Sub Saharan Africa threatens to plunge region into further poverty
Sub Saharan Africa’s economic recovery could lag behind the rest of the world as vaccine shortages and policy restrictions continue…
Economic Reform Program 2.0?
It appears that the government is working on an update to the 2016 economic reform agenda that will focus on…
What the markets are doing on 11 April 2021
Alibaba just got slapped with China’s largest antitrust penalty, with Chinese regulators imposing a USD 2.8 bn fine on the…
Egypt on surer fiscal ground + more debt relief agreed + IMF backs wealth tax
IMF upgrades Egypt budget projections in latest outlook: Egypt’s public finances have withstood the test of covid-19 better than previously…
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